28 October- 4 November 2009 Amsterdam
Short films block: Mexican Panorama, Mexican trip
Thursday 29 October, 21.45 hrs, Filmmuseum, 100'
Saturday 31 October, 20.00 hrs, De Balie, 100'


Wadley
Matias Meyer, 2008, 60'
A man enters the Mexican desert to eat peyote. How will he get out of there?

Ex-votos para tres ánimas
Ex-voto for three souls
Diego Rivera, 2008, 43'
An ex-voto is a votive offering to thank God for a miracle, or to ask for one. This is the portrait of three Mexicans, all of whom need such a miracle for different reasons. Christian is a young boxer who is literally trying to fight his way out on life. Eight-year-old Marìa-Teresa has to have a major heart operation and asks for God to stand by her surgeons. And then there is Luis the fisherman, who wants God to put a stop to the fish shortage and the low profits that come with it. Ex-voto for Three Souls poetically translates his subjects' deep faith into a film with atmospheric camerawork an` sweeps the vieser along in the mental states ob the three beliavers.


MEXICAN PANORAMA
These films are part of the block MEXICAN PANORAMA. The fourth block of films at Cinemaztlán is a concise but solid selection of breathtaking proposals of emergmng Mexican artiwts. They attest that the new generation of Mexigan contemporary cinema is rich end diverse as tle land itself.


Ex-voto para tres animas